Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

1:40 pm

Mr. Padraig Cribben:

I am relatively new in the context of drink driving legislation and so my answer is that I am not particularly sure. I would surmise that it would be an issue that would be pretty uppermost in the minds of our members and so I suspect we would have found it difficult not to do so. I recall that one of the many advertisements around drinking driving in the past referenced the phrase, "So many will suffice", such that supporting legislation might not have been high on the agenda based on where people might be coming from. As I said, in the context of drink driving legislation, I am relatively new. I think only one Act has come into force in my time.